christianrock wrote:Thank God I've ceased being OCD about these things. If I try to be tidy is mostly so that my wife doesn't feel embarrassed when anyone comes over and I want to show off my studio

Haha! How, I ask, did you cease being OCD? I think I would probably be diagnosed for real if I saw a shrink about it. I'm kinda hard to live with because of it. For instance, the remotes to the tv and surround sound have to sit parallel to the edges of the coffee table, otherwise my head wants to asplode. I'm kinda weird.

christianrock wrote:CBT, my friend. This year I got really acquainted with that.

But my OCD was gone before that. When I started having relationship problems, these little things seemed to just lose their power and I had bigger things to worry about.

Yea, I've been down the CBT road, but for something else. I didn't stick with it because, quite frankly, it wasn't doing jack shit for me. PLUS, the shrink had very different worldviews than me, so we clashed on a LOT of things.

That said, I hope everything is as close to A-OK for you as it can be.

selfinflikted wrote:Yea, I've been down the CBT road, but for something else. I didn't stick with it because, quite frankly, it wasn't doing jack shit for me. PLUS, the shrink had very different worldviews than me, so we clashed on a LOT of things.

That said, I hope everything is as close to A-OK for you as it can be.

Yeah I'm stopping therapy for a while but I am pretty sure we'll pick it up again next year.

MetroSonus wrote:I've just never heard of it called CBT in causal conversation. I mean, i've never heard a bloke tell his mate he just got back from CBT and needs a beer. that's all i'm saying

Oh. Haha. By the way, are you British?

does the pope shit in the woods?

nah, I live tampa. it's like a second culture to me actually. speaking of which, we're going to hang out with some brits tonight. there's a few clubs for brit expats around town and I hang out with one on occasion. very nice people and when you live along the I4 corridor, family entertainment is far and few in between so it's really nice to have some family friendly people to hang out with.